Stop deporting DREAMers

from Adam Luna, America’s Voice

Yesterday, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin and 20 other Senate Democrats asked President Obama to halt the deportations of talented and innocent young people.[1 below]

As you know, we've been frantically working to stop the deportation of individual DREAMers, like Marlen in Texas[2 below] and Pedro in Arizona[3 below]. While we’ve saved each one of these young people, it’s become very frustrating to us, and these Senators, that it takes a national campaign to get the Obama Administration to provide relief to just one person.

These Senators know that President Obama has the authority to tell his agents to stop rounding up these young people, and they have taken a strong stand to urge him to end this nonsense once and for all.

Will you join with us in asking President Obama to stop deporting DREAMers?
Click on the headline above or go to http://www.AmericasVoiceOnline.org/DREAMerDeportations

Citations:

[1] Senators Carl Levin (D-MI), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Mark Begich (D-AK), Jack Reed (D-RI), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Michael Bennet (D-CO), John Kerry (D-MA), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Daniel Akaka (D-HI), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), Harry Reid (D-NV, Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT).

[2] Marlen and her 2-year-old son were awakened late one night. Before she knew what was happening, she was being detained by ten heavily armed deputies. She spent the next four and a half months in jail, without bail, until advocates sent over 7,000 faxes to ICE demanding that she be released. She was granted deferred action for one year.

[3] Pedro’s strength and a passion for serving others exemplify what it means to be an American. He was brought to America by his loving grandmother, who died when Pedro was young--leaving him homeless and with no family either in Arizona or in Mexico. Pedro could have been deported if thousands of advocates hadn’t requested a stay of his deportation.